[NewMusic] We have cookies! (was Poopoganda)

[Alicia Byer]

Yeah, I don't use myspace either for the same reasons. I basically quit 
after Murdoch bought it, but I still kinda wish we could make use of the 
internet for music in some more significant way than individual 
websites. The geeky people that developed the internet intentionally 
kept it decentralized to keep it out of the hands of the authorities. 
So, you can still access every page on the internet with equal ease 
(unless you live in those countries that have national firewalls?), 
which is pretty much unheard of in the history of information access. 
I've always found this kinda interesting and to have a lot of potential, 
but I guess I should have known that it would end up with people posting 
endless videos of their retarded cats.

-alicia

kristin miltner wrote:
>>> The other options are not as well populated by musical weirdos worldwide.
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> I for one am getting pretty tired of chasing today's 'myspace' or 'facebook'
> or whatever, and I am betting that other musical weirdos worldwide feel the
> same. Is switching to some other community space really worth the effort? it
> better be a whole LOT better than myspace music to go to the trouble of
> doing that.  For me, the less time I spend on web stuff and the more on
> making music, the better...this is why personal websites are a little less
> popular. why re-invent the wheel? and why have to maintain more than one
> site? i just want people to have somewhere to go if they need to look me up.
> okay, done.
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> myspace music gets a solid B+ for ease of use by impatient people like
> myself. So i'm done with it, and i can get back to actual music-making,
> which is the whole reason my myspace music page is there in the first place.
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> Myspace is SO last week...it's owned by Rupert and it's full of ads....okay
> well, maybe it's pessimistic, but i see a pattern here, and I feel it's just
> a matter of time before the latest and coolest global community space --
> maybe it's ad free, maybe the servers are powered by algae, whatever -- will
> get big, and they will have to feed the thing, and then the company
> mentality changes, and ads go up there, and so on and so on...
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> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Robair, Gino <Gino.Robair at penton.com> wrote:
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>> Michael wrote:
>> <<I respectively disagree with you on the issue of the inherent evilness.
>> If
>> Hitler came back from the grave and bought MySpace would you still have
>> page
>> there?>>
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>> Rupert is not even in that league. I won't take the bait.
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>> <<Besides, I think the MySpace's 15 minutes is up (as the Guardian piece
>> seems to suggest).>>
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>> Wire says so too. But tell that to the millions that sign up every day
>> overseas! For those of us who want to network with people in other
>> countries, MySpace is far from over. At least for me. But I'm so not about
>> trendiness.
>>
>> <<Seems like a pretty lame place to me whenever I do go there -- >>
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>> To the visitor, sure. But again, I've met some really great people there,
>> have gotten gigs through it, have given people gigs through it, etc.
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>> <<Politics aside, with so many other options available, I fail to see why
>> someone would want to have a page on MySpace, trying to scream in the wind
>> amongst the other gazillions of lemmings there that are screaming in the
>> wind (which is not to say I have anything against screaming).>>
>>
>> The other options are not as well populated by musical weirdos worldwide.
>> The other systems tend to Balkanize too much for my tastes.
>>
>> But I'm not here to sell MySpace to anyone --- use it or ignore it. It's
>> just a convenient way for me to get the word out about my stuff, among
>> many.
>> My wind-screaming has been pretty successful when you look at cash outlay
>> ($0) against the results (far greater than $0). And, luckily, I've made
>> some
>> real friends through it. Friendships that will outlive Murdoch's ownership
>> of MySpace (and probably his life).
>>
>> My daughters favorite quote this week: "Join the Dark Side: we have
>> cookies!"
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